Dr. Barensfield: Blanche, you have to change your thinking. You have to find all the other things you are, all the other ways you please people. There's a lot more to you than you know.
Blanche: You know, sometimes I look in the mirror and see my mother's face looking at me. Not all the time. Just every now and then, when the light's too bright, or it's too early in the morning, or late ate night, or I look real fast. There it is, my mother's face. It scares me to death. It just scares me to death. I just get so depressed, I don't want to get out of bed in the morning. I don't want to get out of bed ever again.

Dorothy: Well, I tell you, menopause was wonderful for me. It meant no more PMS.
Blanche: I never had PMS.
Rose: Neither did I. But I had a BMW. A red one. Charlie bought it for me.
Dorothy: PMS. Pre-menstrual syndrome, Rose. You mean, you never got crazy once a month?
Rose: No.

Dorothy: Boy, I did. I would cry, scream, carry on, put on 10Ibs of water. Menopause put an end to that. I loved it.
Blanche: I don't see how you could love it.
Dorothy: Because I didn't see it as having anything to do with my sexuality. I am exactly the same person I was.
Sophia: Unfortunately.
Dorothy: Thank you.

Blanche: Oh, men are so lucky. They never get periods in the first place. So they never have to go through any of this.
Dorothy: They blame us for being crazy when we get 'em and crazy when we don't.
Rose: I remember the first time I got my period, nobody had told me anything about it. Boy was I surprised.
Blanche: Your mother didn't tell you?
Rose: My mother was very prim and proper.
Dorothy: Oh, what a surprise.

Dorothy: I don't think you met Blanche.
Blanche: No, he has not. I would have remembered. Thank you for coming. A man as brilliant as you must be terribly busy.
Sophia: The change of life didn't change her life.
Dr. Parks: Well, it's no mystery. The minks won't breed because they're too old.
Dorothy: You're kidding.
Blanche: Isn't he brilliant?
Dr. Parks: Somebody sold you minks that are too old to breed. They're worn out. They're not interested anymore.
Blanche: You mean you can be too old?
Dr. Parks: Rodents can be, not humans.
Blanche: Is that a theory or is that based on personal experience?
Dr. Parks: Both.
Blanche: Doctor, there's a lizard out on the lanai that's looking awful piqued lately. I wonder if you'd mind taking a look.
Dr. Parks: Not at all.
Blanche: Oh, I'm just so worried about the poor little thing, I just can't sleep at all. You know, I'm such a lover of animals. [exits with Dr. Parks]
Dorothy: Boy, she could be in a coma. Put a man within five miles, she'd roll over and shave her legs.

Dorothy: Well, we wound up spending $678 in the mink business.
Rose: And what did we make?
Dorothy: Make?
Rose: Yes.
Dorothy: A mistake, Rose. A very large, expensive mistake.

Blanche: Well, I had a good time. He was very nice. But you know, the best part is, I think I'm over my menopausal depression.
Dorothy: Oh, honey, you just needed the confidence to know you're still attractive. And Dr Parks helped do that.
Blanche: Oh, no. Well, maybe a little. But I know that beauty like mine cannot fade overnight, so he didn't really have that much to do with it. It was you girls. Yes. You just let me go and be crazy and you were right there through it all.
Sophia: We live here.

Blanche: You were caring and supportive and I thank you for it. I'm really lucky to have friends like you. Oh, the little rats are still here.
Dorothy: Yes, the animal people are coming tomorrow.
Rose: No, they aren't.
Dorothy: I called.
Rose: I cancelled.
Dorothy: What do you mean?
Rose: We are not giving away Fluffy, Muffy, Buffy and Joanne.
Dorothy: Rose, they are non-breeding minks, who eat their weight in food every day. Joanne?
Rose: We are not giving them away. Dorothy, this is their home now.
Blanche: They eat their weight in food every day?
Dorothy: When I'm depressed, so do I. No, Rose, they go.
Rose: No, the minks stay. They served man, now we serve them.
Dorothy: Oh, come on.
Rose: Well, are you saying that just because they're too old to breed, they're useless?
Blanche: The minks stay.